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Robot police officer goes on duty in Dubai | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 May 2017
Dubai Police have revealed their first robot officer, giving it the task of patrolling the city's malls and tourist attractions. People will be able to use it to report crimes, pay fines and get infor...
Forget Tesla, Google’s self-driving Waymo business is the future of cars | The Telegraph
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 May 2017
Forget Tesla as the future of road transport, Google’s Waymo is the way to go, according to Morgan Stanley, whose analysts think the self-driving car business could be worth at least $70bn.
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Intel’s Euclid robot dev Kit launches May 31 | PC Mag
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 May 2017
Intel wants Euclid to be the brain, eyes, and communication device at the heart of new robot projects.
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Hopkins grad students imagine a future in which robots can do just about anything | Johns Hopkins University
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 May 2017
The player isn't David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo—it's a small, blue EduMIP mobile robot. And it's not the final moments of the World Cup. Instead, it's a robotics demonstration in a lab on the ca...
The surprising repurcussions of making AI assistants sound human | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 May 2017
ASK ALEXA ABOUT the weather, and it’ll tell you it’s sunny and 75 in a pleasant monotone. Prompt it to tell you a joke, and it’ll offer a pun in its signature staccato. Suggest that it sing a so...
San Francisco could ban sidewalk delivery robots | SF Gate
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 May 2017
Delivery robots, a sci-fi idea that recently entered real-world testing, would be banned from San Francisco sidewalks under legislation Supervisor Norman Yee introduced on Tuesday.
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With a little AI, Apple Watch may be able to spot a heart problem | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 May 2017
The Apple Watch is not a medical device. Sure, it can keep an eye on large changes in your heart rate, making it reasonably good at telling you how long you worked out for. But anything more than that...
BMW just strengthened its alliance to take on Mercedes in the self-driving-car race | Business Insider UK
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 May 2017
BMW is expanding its network of enviable partners to take on Mercedes and Tesla in the race to develop self-driving cars.
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Nvidia CEO: Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 May 2017
Tech companies and investors have recently been piling money into artificial intelligence—and plenty has been trickling down to chip maker Nvidia. The company’s revenues have climbed as it has sta...
Nagoya team working on robot to help elderly drivers stay alert, safe | Japan Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 May 2017
A research team at Nagoya University is developing a system to help the elderly drive safely using a small robot, with the aim of releasing the technology by 2019.
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Lyft and Waymo reach deal to collaborate on self-driving cars | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 May 2017
Waymo, the self-driving car unit that operates under Google’s parent company, has signed a deal with the ride-hailing start-up Lyft, according to two people familiar with the agreement who spoke on ...
Drones kill, yes, but they also rescue, research and entertain | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
12 May 2017
One day in 1945, the crew of the aircraft carrier Intrepid gathered on deck for a group picture with what looks like a model airplane, not too much larger than the radio-controlled planes that hobbyis...
Waymo Vs Uber: Another setback for Uber | The Atlantic
Alex Kirkpatrick
12 May 2017
The ride-sharing giant is headed to trial with Waymo, and a federal judge is referring the case to the nation’s top prosecutor for further investigation.
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Robots can quickly learn new skills from humans and teach them to other robots | Motherboard
Alex Kirkpatrick
11 May 2017
It seems like with each passing day, humans cede more ground to our robot overlords. They now dunk on us in basketball, kick our ass at table tennis, assist with brain surgeries and are even learning ...
Abundant Robotics rakes in $10 million for apple harvesting robots | Tech Crunch
Alex Kirkpatrick
11 May 2017
GV (formerly Google Ventures) is leading a $10 million investment in Abundant Robotics, a company building apple-picking robots that could eventually be adapted to harvest other fruits. Joining GV in ...
Experiments show that a few self-driving cars can dramatically improve traffic flow | Phys.org
Alex Kirkpatrick
10 May 2017
The presence of just a few autonomous vehicles can eliminate the stop-and-go driving of the human drivers in traffic, along with the accident risk and fuel inefficiency it causes, according to new res...
Amazon is offering $250,000 to a team that comes up with an advanced robot for its warehouses | CNBC
Alex Kirkpatrick
10 May 2017
Amazon is offering $250,000 to teams who invent robots that could potentially work in their massive fulfillment centers, and it has chosen 16 finalists for a tournament it is organizing later this yea...
Uber is building an artificial intelligence hub in Toronto, ON | Huffington Post
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 May 2017
Ride-hailing company Uber is looking to hire “dozens” of artificial intelligence researchers in Toronto after announcing it plans to open its first research facility outside the U.S.
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AeroVironment unveils palm-sized surveillance drone for U.S. military | Reuters
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 May 2017
Drone-maker AeroVironment Inc unveiled a small four-rotor surveillance helicopter on Tuesday that can be carried in a small pouch and launched from the palm of a hand.
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Million-dollar prize hints at how machine learning may someday spot cancer | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 May 2017
A contest aimed at automating the detection of lung cancer shows how machine learning may be poised to overhaul medical imaging. The challenge offered $1 million in prizes for the algorithms that most...
Robot completes delicate eye surgery in first | Live Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 May 2017
In a medical first, surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the human eye, greatly improving the accuracy of a delicate surgery to remove fine membrane growth on the retina. Such growth distorts ...
Parasitic robot controls turtle it’s riding by giving it snacks | New Scientist
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 May 2017
In preparation for becoming humanity’s overlords, robots have started controlling turtles. By first getting the reptiles to associate a red light with food, the shell-attached robots can dictate whe...
Sidd Srinivasa: Robotic Manipulation… | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
07 May 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Robots manipulate with super-human speed and dexterity on factory floors. But yet they fail even under moderate amounts of clutter or uncertainty. However, human t...
Titan ripe for drone invasion | Phys.org
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 May 2017
With its dense and hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, Titan has been a subject of interest for many decades. And with the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission, which began exploring Saturn and its system ...
Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects | New Scientist
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 May 2017
When the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi river in Minnesota collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people, it was because of defects in steel plates that safety inspectors had missed. A new robot helper coul...
Another group of Google veterans start their own self-driving tech company | Bloomberg
Alex Kirkpatrick
04 May 2017
DeepMap Inc., which was founded by mapping veterans of Alphabet Inc., is building systems enabling self-driving cars to steer through complex cityscapes. DeepMap plans to license its map-building so...
Elon Musk: Robot software will make Tesla worth as much as Apple | Market Watch
Alex Kirkpatrick
04 May 2017
In three different facilities spread across America, Tesla’s TSLA, -4.93% robot-manufacturing prowess is about to show its worth. If Musk — who, to his credit, is building rockets that can land ...
French automaker to test self-driving cars in Singapore | CNN
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 May 2017
PSA Group, one of the world's largest car makers, is teaming with MIT spinoff nuTonomy to build self-driving capabilities into the Peugeot 3008. They'll first test the new self-driving Peugeot in Sing...
Industrial robots that build cars can be easily hacked | Recode
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 May 2017
Industrial robots are responsible for making nearly every device you use: Your phone, your computer, cars, airplanes, you name it. It’s incredibly important for robots to do exactly what the factory...
Hands-on with TurtleBot 3, a powerful little robot for learning ROS | IEEE Spectrum
Kassie Perlongo
02 May 2017
"The new TurtleBot 3 Waffle from Robotis: a powerful, modular robot that runs ROS."
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An ostrich-like robot pushes the limits of legged locomotion | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
02 May 2017
Robots are still learning to walk. Here’s one that runs on two legs.
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How drone swarms could help protect us from tornadoes | Popular Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 May 2017
Tornadoes aren't just dangerous because of their sheer power: they're also extremely difficult to predict. On average, weather monitors give us only 13 minutes' notice to take cover. But mechanical en...
Teaching the machines to understand us | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 May 2017
A reincarnation of one of the oldest ideas in artificial intelligence could finally make it possible to truly converse with our computers. And Facebook has a chance to make it happen first.
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Selma Sabanovic: Robots for the social good | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
29 Apr 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Robots are expected to become ubiquitous in the near future, working alongside and with people in everyday environments to provide various societal benefits. In co...
“Dragonfly'” drone could fly across Saturn’s moon Titan | Scientific American
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Apr 2017
A relocatable lander could explore the hazy skies of Saturn's intriguing moon Titan, according a new mission proposal. As the eight-bladed whirlybird travels across the moon, it could investigate some...
Watch this robot construct the world’s biggest botmade building by itself | Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Apr 2017
In just half a day, a new type of robot built an igloo-shaped building half the diameter of the U.S. Capitol dome—all by itself. In the future, such autonomous machines could assemble entire towns, ...
